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Cathie Pilkington (b.

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1968, UK) is a London-based artist whose work engages passionately and critically with the canonical history of figurative sculpture. Crossing the borders of traditional, modern and contemporary idioms, her work combines intensively modelled and painted sculptures within immersive installations comprising a diverse array of props, materials and studio furniture.

Her site-responsive installations are balanced ambivalently between chaos and precision and have been described as a kind of art historical fly-tipping.

She studied at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (1986-91) and the Royal College of Art, London, UK (1995-97). She was elected a Royal Academician in 2014 and became the first female professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools in London, UK (2016-2019).

In 2020, she was elected Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools. Her work is held in the collections of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK; DESTE Foundation for C Cathie Pilkington | Karsten Schubert London MIP